“I’m Dawn Barclay. I’m not prepared to stand by and let people live life in utter misery. I ask difficult questions”

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The ‘Official’ Bio

Dawn has been described as ‘whacky, unconventional, genius, not normal, kickassy, passionate, moxie, awesome, inspiring, empathic, caring, inclusive, empowering’, she’s also been told that ‘she really knows her stuff’ and ‘gets people quickly’  that ‘if only she had been around years ago’ lives would be better.

She likes whacky and genius. And realises it does depend on who you ask!

Dawn works with individuals, groups, and teams. She’s hired to change lives. And pimps herself out to do the same: training, speaking, facilitating, coaching.

To date, this has included Universities, Schools, Colleges, Local Council departments, Employability Projects, Charities, Non-Profits, community groups, and the private sector.

Her methods and training techniques have also been shared through her Training for Trainer programs, which surprised her, she never knew she had a method.

Her work is person centred, and she’s passionate and devoted to life long learning, human rights, inclusion. Her goal is big, to end people living and working in misery. To inspire others to inspire themselves. To assist people to live a life of passion and purpose, with no fear, no blame, no excuse.

Dawn is a qualified and highly experienced trainer, careers advisor, coach and facilitator. The individuals she works with are a cross section of society. Over the 16 years Dawn has seen the worst of humanity and the very best. Her biggest learning is that all over the core ‘problems’ are the same, the neighbourhood is just different.

She believes that long lasting meaningful change, comes not from solely learning a pile of theory, tools and techniques, that people move further and nearer to their goals when they experience a sense of belonging and connection. Community is vital to her work.

She’s best known for her careers, employability and personal development courses. She is also active in the non-profit world helping charities raise funds via her personal development (firewalking) services and supporting them with their social media. Her careers work also includes helping solo startups, get over the ‘the overwhelm, is it normal’ phase.

When not working: writing, training, coaching, blogging, networking, writing programs, delivering a firewalk or an empowerment event, running a career cafe you’d find her up to her knees in mud, walking the dogs, her second love, or enjoying a good coffee with good friends.

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